American History Quotes - Page 7

• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, President, Paychecks

  "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011 May 13, 2011.

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• The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Curriculum, Today

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• The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

  Anthony Gregory

  Struggle, Centralization, Core

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• I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Home, School

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• We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, President, Finest

  "Newt Gingrich: Obama Is 'Food Stamp President'". www.cnbc.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

  Anson Mount

  War, Grew Up, South

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

  Jonathan Chait

  Tragedy, Trump, Jokes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Past, English History, Two

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• You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

  Sarah Palin

  Type, Shout Out, Mess

  "In a skewed way, Palin was kind of right about Paul Revere" by Luke Broadwater, www.baltimoresun.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

  Martin Luther

  Ugly, Pages, Forgotten

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• We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.

  Mitch Daniels

  Book, School, Law

  "Ex-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Supports Free Speech - Except When He Disagrees With It" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. July 17, 2013.

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• American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

  Herbert Croly

  Regret, Congratulations, Pride

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Population, Conflict

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• The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Gone, Firsts, Periods

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1

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• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Land, Degrees, Development

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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• [Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Upset, Campaigns

  Source: time.com

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• I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Independent

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Cities, Names

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Stars, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  George Will

  Dream, Strong, Men

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• I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Doubt, Turning Points

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

  William Kristol

  Real, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Years, African American, Challenges

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• American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Icons, Culture

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